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GPU sales have slumped badly as PC gamers wait for next-gen AMD and Nvidia graphics cards – and I don’t blame them
Imminent Nvidia RTX 5000 and AMD RDNA 4 launches at CES 2025 mean GPU sales have slumped in a big way.
I've never taken Intel's GPU competition seriously, but the Arc B580 has left me no choice - it just surpassed the RTX 4060 and RX 7600 in Vulkan benchmarks
If there was any time to give Intel's GPUs any attention, it would be now, with the Arc B580 defeating the RTX 4060 in Vulkan benchmarks.
AMD Strix Halo leak suggests chips are imminent, but gives me a couple of reasons to worry about the flagship laptop CPU
Strix Halo flagship appears in leaked benchmark, but it stokes concerns that the chip may not be for gaming notebooks.
Intel unleashes XeSS 2 for Arc GPUs with huge changes to speed up PC games, borrowing a few pages from Nvidia’s DLSS playbook
Intel reveals XeSS 2 alongside new Battlemage GPUs – packs frame generation and low latency tech to supercharge games.
AMD announces CES 2025 launch event on January 6, 2025 – and drops a heavy hint that new RDNA 4 GPUs will be revealed
Can’t wait for RDNA 4 GPUs to arrive? We should see them next month at CES 2025, among a bunch of other gaming goodies.
Intel announces its new Battlemage graphics cards, and they might just be the 1440p budget champions we've been waiting for
Intel announces its newest GPUs, the Intel Arc B580 and Arc B570, with pricing and specs that might make them fantastic 1440p cards on a budget.
AMD RX 8800 XT could match RTX 4080’s performance – and easily outgun Nvidia’s GPU for ray tracing
Has AMD fixed ray tracing with RDNA 4 GPUs? Rumor suggests RX 8800 XT could equal Nvidia RTX 4080 Super for ray tracing.
Intel confirms Arc desktop GPU launch on December 3, while Battlemage B570 leak hints that it could be a dream budget graphics card
Leaked spec for the B570 gives us hope that Intel could pitch it as a low-end champ of a graphics card.
